Grand Duke Paul Alexandrovich of Russia

Grand Duke Paul Alexandrovich of Russia (3 October 1860-30 January 1919) was a General of the Cavalry of the Imperial Russian Army during World War I. He was executed by the Bolsheviks during the Russian Civil War.

Biography
Paul Alexandrovich was born in St. Petersburg, Russian Empire in 1860, the son of Czar Alexander II of Russia and Marie of Hesse and by Rhine. Paul entered the Imperial Russian Army, becoming a General of Cavalry and Adjutant-General to his brother Czar Alexander III of Russia. Between 1902 and 1914, he lived in exile in Paris, France after his family disapproved of his morganatic marriage, but he settled back in Russia in the spring of 1914. During the last days of the Tsardom, he was one of the few members of the House of Romanov to remain close with Czar Nicholas II of Russia and his wife Alix of Hesse and by Rhine, and he was tasked with informing Alix of Nicholas' abdication following the Russian Revolution of 1917. His palace at Tsarskoye Selo was appropriated by the Bolsheviks during the revolution, and he was eventually arrested and sent to prison. On 30 January 1919, he was executed by a firing squad at the Peter and Paul Fortress in Petrograd.